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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution began in February 1917, the two revolutions led to the rise and eventually the fall of the Soviet Union. These events did contribute to the start of World War 2 -
The Potsdam Conference
This was the Berlin Conference involving the three kingpins of the Government. The USA, USSR, and UK met to discuss the status of World War 2 -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Towords the end of World War 2 the US dropped two nuclear weapons on two cities in Japan. These bombs wiped those to cities off the map. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was built just after World War 2 ended to separate Europe, The Soviet Union wanted to block themselves out from the rest of the world after the "loss" of the war. -
The Molotov Plan
Aid provided by The Soviet Union to help re-build the Eastern European countries that lost their power during the war. -
The Hollywood 10
10 Hollywood actors were accused of having heavy communist ties and were blacklisted from all movies and TV. -
The Truman Doctorine
The Truman Doctrine was an American Foreign Policy that minimalized the expansion of Soviet Union after the war ended. -
The Alger Hiss Case
The Alger Hiss Case took place when Alger Hiss, an American government official who was accused of Soviet spying. He was found guilty and served 10 years in prison -
The Marshall Plan
The US donated over $13 billion dollars to aid the fallen European countries and their economies. -
The Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crisis of the cold war. Germany and The Soviet Union blocked off all the Western Allies from the rest of the world -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed between American and European countries at the begining of the Cold War -
The Berlin Airlift
US military planes dropped supplies, food, candy and toys for the people stuck on the other side of the Berlin wall. -
The Soviet Bomb Test
The USSR detonated its first atomic bomb in Kazakhstan. The bomb's code name was "First Lightning" -
The Korean War
The Korean war took place between North Korea and South Korea and it began when North Korea invaded South Korea after a series of clashes along the border -
The Rosenburg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were executed in 1951 after being accused and convicted of "Conspiracy to Commit Espionage" -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The first engaged Indochina war, a struggle between the French and the Vietnamese -
The Army McCarthy Hearing
The senate hearing that began after Joseph McCarthy's hunt for communists in the US after the Cold War began. -
The Geneva Conference
A conference that took place in Switzerland between several nations to settle outstanding issues from the Korean War -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was formed in retaliation to NATO being developed. The Warsaw Pact involved The Soviet Union and Poland -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian uprising of 1956 was a huge country wide revolt of the Soviet imposed ideas of Communism -
The U-2 Incident
A United States aircraft that was shot down in Soviet Airspace the U-2 spy plane was executed by the Soviet Air Defence. The pilot of the US plane parachuted out and was not killed -
The Bay of Pigs
The failed military invasion of Cuba led by the US. Cuba rebeled and took a Defensive Victory -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin was was built to split the communist taken over Berlin from the free Berlin -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13 day confrentation that took place between the US and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missiles -
The Assassination of Diem
The president of South Vietnam was captured and eventually assassinated after a coup within his government -
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Government gave President Johnson the authorization to take action and see fit that southeast Asia was somewhat forced into peace. -
Tet Offensive
The uprising of Tet Mau Than led by North Vietnam and the NFL, this was named one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnamese War -
Operation Rolling Thunder
A gradual and sustained American air assault against the Vietnam Air Force -
The Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King JR. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was a huge and tragic loss, it also sparked a movement in the fight for civil rights -
The Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles right after he had won the presidential primaries in 1986 -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The countries involved with the Warsaw Pact (the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland) invaded Czechoslovakia -
The Riots of Democratic convention
In Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets. The Democratic Party also re-examines its stance on the Vietnam War -
The Election of Nixon
Republican nominee and former Vice President. Richard Nixon won the presidential election in November 1968 -
The Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the US, he was assassinated while riding in the presidential motorcade in Texas -
Kent State
At Kent State University located in Ohio, in 1970 4 students were killed after a open fire demonstration by the national gaurd -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visited China as a strictly strategic government move, he wants to introduce harmonious joints with China -
The Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Nixon orderd a ceasfire of all arial bombings in North Vietnam to propose peace -
The Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon and the total capture of the capitol of South Vietnam symbolizes the surrender of Vietnam -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan who was a California state resident became the president of the United States for the Republican party -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defence Initiative was a proposed missile defence system that the United States initiated in 1984 -
The Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
After eight years, the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States hold a summit conference in Geneva. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a new more peaceful world plan -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Known as one of Ronald Reagan's best speeches took place at the Berlin wall when he was asking Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall -
The Fall of Berlin Wall
After President Ronald Reagan's speech to Mikhail Gorbachev, Gorbachev made the desion to desolve the Berlin wall and create a safer Berlin.
